WINNIPEG — Rap artist. Journalist. Economics student. Wab Kinew's path as a young man, including several brushes with the law and some convictions, did not appear a likely path to politics.
Wab Kinew's path as a young man, including several brushes with the law and some convictions, did not appear a likely path to politics.One of the reasons he cites is what happened to the family of his wife, Lisa Monkman, whose mother was on social assistance in the 1980s and was given an opportunity for education and a career. A government program helped the family out of poverty. Monkman would follow up with her own education, go to medical school and become a physician.
Kinew was born in Ontario and lived on the Onigaming First Nation as a young boy. His late father was a residential school survivor who endured horrific abuse and passed on to Kinew the importance of Anishinaabe culture and language. Courted by a few political parties at the provincial and federal level, Kinew opted to run for the Manitoba New Democrats in 2016. The party's then-leader, Greg Selinger, had been one of the teachers in the education program that Monkman's mother had taken, Kinew said in a 2016 social media post.
But the book painted a tamer picture of the taxi assault than the facts read into the court record, which said Kinew had used racial slurs and had punched the driver in the face. Now in his early 40s, Kinew says he turned his life around years ago and his troubled past is one reason he's running for the premier's office.
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